From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 3 05:03:52 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A720837B404 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 05:03:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lilzcluster.liwest.at (lilzclust01.liwest.at [212.33.55.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C601D43F85 for ; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 05:03:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dgw@liwest.at) Received: from linkinpark by lilzcluster.liwest.at (8.10.2/1.1.2.11/08Jun01-1123AM) id h53C3nw0000677427; Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:03:49 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <000501c329ca$963da1e0$0300000a@linkinpark> From: "Daniela" To: Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2003 14:20:57 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Subject: Server overloaded? Or is it a bug? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 12:03:53 -0000 Hi all! I need your help. My server doesn't respond any more. Everything crashed. How can I find out if this is a bug or it is simply overloaded? I don't have much running, just KDE with about 10 programs on each of the 16 desktops, and a few background processes. This seems much, but I often have much more stuff running, and it is not even slow. It does respond when I ping it, but won't let me in over SSH. The processor doesn't sound busy, so I suspect that the scheduler has gone away, or there is some bug in the kernel, or some system table is too small. How do I find out what the problem is? (Never had any before.) FreeBSD has always managed the highest loads, even on normal PC hardware. Is it possible to bring the server back without rebooting? I would lose a lot of unsaved data if I had to reboot. I'm running 4.8-STABLE. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Daniela